FERNALD, — SOME NEW SPERMATOPHYTES, 505 
n Panixtlahuaca and Juquila, alt. 923 m., Feb. 26, 1895 (Z. W. 
, no. 2391); in oak- and pine-woods, San Carlos, Yauhtepec, 
, 1896, and in mountain-woods between San Carlos and San 
o, Jan. 6, 1896 (CO. & #. Séeler, nos. 1765, 1655); previously 
ed at San Bartolo by Liebmann (no. 399), whose specimen has 
referred by Dr. Klatt to B. hebecarpa, Gray. The present species, 
er, differs from that as from the other related species in its glomer- 
» heads and barely scarious involucre. 
anthocephalum megalocephalum. Perennial from slender 
in g rootstock: stem glabrous, glutinous, 3 or 4 dm. high, bearing 
large solitary heads at the tips of long branches: leaves entire, 
ous-punctate, the lower spatulate and petioled, about 1 dm. long, 
upper lanceolate, sessile and shorter: involucre broad-hemispherical, 
12 mm. high; the outer bracts lanceolate, with herbaceous tips, 
nner oblong and blunt, mostly chartaceous: rays oblanceolate, blunt, 
. long : achenes glabrous; pappus a crown of minute pales. — Cur- 
HUAHUA, Mt. Mohinora, Sept. 1, 1898 (4. W. Nelson, no. 4890) ; 
Sierra Madre near Guachochi, alt. 2,100 m., Sept. 27, 1898 (£. A. 
Goldman, no. 174). Related to X. Alamani, Benth. & Hook., but 
much larger throughout. : 
Bigelowia Nelsonii. Shrub with rough dark gray bark; branches 
rigid and ascending, conspicuously glandular-punctate: leaves crowded, 
linear, submucronate, conspicuously glandular-dotted, 0.5 to 1.5 em. 
long: heads solitary, subsessile at tips of short lateral leafy branches: 
involucre 1 em. broad, many-flowered, the 3 series of glandular bracts 
thin, linear-attenuate: achenes long-silky. — Cammuanva, in the Sierra 
Madre, Sept. 29, 1899 (Z. W. Nelson, no. 6494). Resembling B. brachy- 
lepis, “had but with much broader heads, and thinner attenuate involu- 
cral brac 
Scllsiec Pringlei. Stem puberulent or minutely pilose, with few 
ascending branches, very leafy: leaves linear or elongate-lanceolate, 
narrowed below to a slender sub-petiolar base, and above to an acumi- 
nate tip, 0.5 to 1.3 dm. long, 8 to 7 mm. wide, the midnerve prominent, 
and two lateral ones sometimes apparent, finely appressed-serrulate or 
subentire, with ciliate margins, puberulous above, finely pilose beneath : 
panicles elongate, narrow, 1 to 1.5 dm. long, 2 or 3 em. broad, secund, 
the tips slightly recurved: involucre 4 mm. high; bracts glabrous, 
linear, the outer acutish, the inner blunt: achenes pubescent. — 
Nuevo Leon, in the Sierra Madre, near Monterey, Aug. 22, 1889 
(C. G. Pringle, no. 2886). Resembling S. rupestris, Raf. but with 
